A part of emerson industrial automation, control techniques has a single minded focus on the design and manufacture of variable speed drives. They manufactures and exports sm-applications. Sm-applications offers all of the characteristics of the sm-applications lite module but with additional communications and high speed i/o. Sm-applications is programmed using syptpro system programming tool.
The module has two digital inputs and two digital outputs for high-speed i/o operations such as position capture and actuator firing.
The module features a serial communications port supporting standard protocols such as modbus for connection to external devices such as operator interface panels.
Drive-to-drive communications - sm-applications option modules include a high speed drive-to-drive network called ctnet, this network is optimized for intelligent drive systems offering flexible peer to peer communications. The bus has the ability to connect to remote i/o, operator panels, mentor dc drives and pcs using an opc server.
